Prayer Requests & Praises

You might have noticed I changed the side of the blog a little bit. I added the prayer and praise list. If anyone has anything they would like added to that for people to pray or thank God for- please let me know and I will add it. Also I have added some links to online albums and/or other websites you can go to. If you have a website (personal or whatever) you want people to be able to get to from here or online albums, let me know and I can add that also. I hope all of you have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Oh can I say that? Or should I say Happy Holidays cuz we can't say Christmas anymore? Ha just kidding- I will say Merry Christmas to anyone and everyone!!

Kid Update

Aaron is almost 3~I can't believe it! He talks up a storm and I can't believe the conversations he comes up with. They are actually understandable and make sense. He can remember certain conversations he hears and repeat them pretty well. (Which isn't always good, I guess.) He can say his whole name, spell his first name, and recognize it written out. He can say his ABCs and identify all the letters individually. He can count to ten and sometimes to 20. He knows his colors- even some of the different ones like gray and pink. I am teaching him the meaning of some road signs and of traffic lights. He loves to learn. He has a little desk now and likes to draw and color in his books on it. He plays with his brother sometimes but usually if I am watching or near- he is mean to him. If they are upstairs in their room or something, he is a lot nicer. I have no idea what makes the difference but whatever, as long as they are not fighting! I don't know how my mom did it with 4 kids fighting all the time-it's frustrating! Aaron still loves to help Daddy do anything and everything. He is getting better at bedtime now that the boys share a room. At the old house, he always said he was scared but here he hasn't said that at all. They are a lot better than I thought they would be with sharing a room. Sometimes there is a problem of waking each other up but not often. (Usually when Mommy REALLY wants just a little more sleep!) Aaron still loves his cars, trucks, and balls. He loves to line them up all over. He has a lot so it makes a REALLY long line!

Tyler is a year now. In the slideshow you will see some pics of his birthday. We just had a few people over to help celebrate. He wasn't sure what to do with the candle so he just grabbed the flame. The look on his face was so funny! He didn't dig in and get messy like I thought he would. (Now if I had made the cake out of dirt and mud-I'm sure it would be a different story!) He did have a small piece of cake which he enjoyed though. You will see pics of carving pumpkins. Tyler liked his first pumpkin- he thought it tasted great and those seeds? He wanted to eat all of them. Yuck! He still doesn't talk- I think he could if he wanted to but he's content with learning every form of motion in the world other than moving his mouth and tongue! He climbs everywhere and wants to do everything Aaron and Daddy do. He has all but 4 of his teeth and is almost off the bottle completely. He has a sippy cup most of the time. He stopped baby food a while ago because he only wants what we eat not mushy stuff! He loves music and dancing. I took him outside yesterday for the first time in the snow. I will add those pics later. That was fun- he enjoyed trying to sweep the driveway most of the time. That is his favorite toy- if you get out the broom expect him to be there. He prefers the big broom to the little dust broom though!

Thanksgiving 2007

Thanksgiving 07

Usually we have Thanksgiving at Deisy's house, but this year we had everyone to our house- now that we actually have lots of room. We had 18 peoples in our house and we weren't stumbling over each other. It was great! Everyone brought something and we had a lot of fun. Check out the pics- you can see some of our new house in some of the pics. Cody and Stacey and their friend, Megan, came up the day after. We just hung out, played games, and relaxed. We went to play laser tag (Dad too!) and in our first game, Heather got first place. I actually beat Wilmer in one of the games too!! It was a lot of fun.

Stacey's Wedding

I figured out how to put a slideshow of certain albums on here so I decided to give it a try.

October 13, 2007
Stacey and Cody Lepley were married and it was a gorgeous day for them! She looked beautiful and everything went fairly smoothly. Emily, Hannah, and Aaron were all in the wedding. Aaron was the ringbearer and the "pillow" he carried was a wrestling championship belt with the rings attached! It was pretty cute. He did well for the rehearsal but come wedding day, he wasn't in a cooperative mood until the reception so Wilmer had to walk down the aisle with him. (So, technically Wilmer was the ringbearer too!) =) Emily and Hannah did good as the flower girls and instead of the typical rose petals, they threw leaves (fake) in the aisle. Everything was autumn themed so it was different but in a good way.
Emily was really caught up in the "married" thing and she kept asking Aaron if he would "marry with her". Typical little boy, he just wanted to run and play. Then the dancing started at the reception and she pulled him out on the dance floor. They danced until the music stopped. Then she took his hand as walked off the floor with him and told the crowd of people as they walked thru that "We're married now"! It was so cute! A fellow New Yorker there told us to take our boys home away from these backwoods people who marry their cousins!! =)

NEW HOUSE

October 15, 2007
Yes, we moved into our new house. If you go to our online web album the pics are there for Evergreen Dr. We bought this house earlier this year thinking about flipping it, then the economy for selling real estate went horribly bad so we could not sell it as quickly as we hoped. So we decided to sell our old house and move into the bigger one as the other was getting pretty tight for us. A bunch of guys from church came and helped us move since Wilmer's arm was in a sling and I can't move couches and all that by myself. It was great- about 10-12 people came and we were moved within 1-1 1/2 hrs. They were so helpful and thank God for our friends and church family. Our old house has not sold yet though, so please be praying with us on that. We cannot afford 2 mortgages so one needs to go or be rented or something. But we do love our new house, esp the extra room and fireplace!

Miles Mountain Motocross Track

Miles Mountain 10-6-07

Saturday, October 6, 2007
There is a motocross track that one of Wilmer's friends showed him just over the border into PA off Rt15. So we went there so he could ride. The plan was for me and the kids to meet my mom at the track and go home with her so I could help with the prep for Stacey's wedding only a week away. Then Wilmer would come down for the wedding. Mom and Stacey weren't coming until early afternoon so the boys and I watched Daddy and our friend, Mike, ride. I was taking pics and videos of them. They were actually both riding pretty good. I was surprised how well Wilmer was doing because he hasn't ridden in quite a while and he was also on a new bike which was a lot different than his old one. Aaron and Tyler were having fun and it was a gorgeous day, nice and warm, so I didn't have to worry about cold and miserableness! Then Mom and Stacey got there and decided to watch for a little while so I could get some good pics and movies without trying to watch the boys too. The practice ended at 4pm so the last time out was for everyone- good and bad riders- usually it is split between the Expert and Amateur class (class A) and the Novice and Beginner class (class B). Wilmer and Mike said- ok we will go out this last time together and then pack up and go home. Mom, Stacey, and I stayed and watched for a little while then decided to leave for Jersey Shore before they were finished. About 20 minutes after leaving, I got a call from Wilmer. "Can you come back? I had an accident and hurt my shoulder again!" Apparently Wilmer left the ground to do a jump and another rider stupidly stopped and pulled over right where he was going to land. Once you're in the air you can't really control much about moving over from where you planned on landing. So he landed pretty much on the other guy (who walked away with no apparent injuries) and separated his AC joint in his shoulder for the 2nd time on that side. He had separated it about 10 years ago snowboarding. This time was much worse. It really sticks out but now it matches his other shoulder which he separated the AC joint about 7 years ago while racing his bike. So I ended up staying home with him for the week then we went down to PA on Thurs to help as much as we could. The first week he was in quite a bit of pain but after that, he healed up pretty quick and didn't need the sling after the 2nd week. So we thank God that he didn't get hurt any worse than that and that it healed quickly as we were in the middle of moving as well.

Stokoe Farm

Stokoe Farms 2007

September 29, 2007
We went to Stokoe Farm again this year with Allan and Margaret Wells from our church. They have a son, Brandon, who is great friends with Aaron. Tyler wasn't too sure about everything. He would do what we wanted but didn't have much expression about anything. Even going down the big slide with Daddy, he didn't cry but he didn't smile either. I'm not too sure about what he was thinking all day but at least he was pretty good. Aaron had a blast. He and Brandon ran and just wore themselves out (lucky for us later!). There are pics in our online album if you click the pic. They started out in the "cornbox" which I would love to have at home as it is sooo much cleaner than a sandbox. Then they moved to the potato sack slide where they wanted to go over and over and over, much to the dismay of the daddies who were getting tired of climbing the stairs and sliding. =) Next, we had doughnuts and apple cider then played in the tunnels under the haystack. Then we rode on the little train twice and visited the animals-llama, calf, sheep, rabbits, chicks, pig. Then we rode the hayride back to the peddle race cars where once again the daddies (who really got their exercise today) took Aaron and Brandon out on the track. Then the giant tractor wheel that you walk in and the pumpkin shooter (where Aaron hit the big van target)- with jsut a little help from Daddy. Then we went up to the playground, corn maze, and big black tube slides. The slides were the biggest hit of the day and we spent a lot of time there. Allan and Wilmer got the boys to do the slides themselves so they could sit and relax at least a little. During this time Tyler was sleeping so we were trading off holding him because he was heavy!! Aaron was asleep shortly after getting in the truck. It was a great day to just relax and have fun with friends and each other.